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PCDMIS Changes feature THEO after manual align.

I program a part offline and everything seems like its going to work. I have the part oriented horizontally. Once I actually do the manual align on the CMM it shifts my Y origin point by 4.75 inches or so forward and it updates the theoretical on Plane 1, which is used to origin Y, from <0,0,0> to <0,4.75,0>. This then causes all the theoretical on all features to also get shifted out of whack. To fix it I have to manually change the theoretical back to <0,0,0> before it switches to DCC and has a chance to screw up all the features. What am I doing wrong? Code is posted below. Thank you.

STARTUP    =ALIGNMENT/START,RECALL:USE_PART_SETUP,LIST=YES
            ALIGNMENT/END
            MODE/MANUAL
            FORMAT/TEXT,OPTIONS, ,HEADINGS,SYMBOLS, ;NOM,TOL,MEAS,DEV,OUTTOL, ,
            LOADPROBE/STAR
            TIP/T1A0B180, SHANKIJK=1, 0, 0, ANGLE=180
MAN_CYL1   =FEAT/CONTACT/CYLINDER/DEFAULT,CARTESIAN,OUT,LEAST_SQR
            THEO/<0,0.7,0>,<0,-1,0>,1.9688,-0.822
            ACTL/<0,0.7,0>,<0,-1,0>,1.9688,-0.822
            TARG/<0,0.7,0>,<0,-1,0>
            START ANG=90,END ANG=-90
            ANGLE VEC=<1,0,0>
            DIRECTION=CW
            SHOW FEATURE PARAMETERS=NO
            SHOW CONTACT PARAMETERS=YES
              NUMHITS=3,NUMLEVELS=3,DEPTH=0,END OFFSET=0,PITCH=0
              SAMPLE METHOD=SAMPLE_HITS
              SAMPLE HITS=0,SPACER=0
              AVOIDANCE MOVE=NO
              FIND HOLE=DISABLED,ONERROR=NO,READ POS=NO
            SHOW HITS=NO
MAN_A1     =ALIGNMENT/START,RECALL:STARTUP,LIST=YES
              ALIGNMENT/LEVEL,YMINUS,MAN_CYL1
              ALIGNMENT/TRANS,XAXIS,MAN_CYL1
              ALIGNMENT/TRANS,ZAXIS,MAN_CYL1
            ALIGNMENT/END
MAN_PLN1   =FEAT/CONTACT/PLANE/DEFAULT,CARTESIAN,TRIANGLE,LEAST_SQR
            THEO/<0,0,0>,<0,-1,0>
            ACTL/<0,0,0>,<0,-1,0>
            TARG/<0,0,0>,<0,-1,0>
            ANGLE VEC=<1,0,0>,RADIAL
            SHOW FEATURE PARAMETERS=NO
            SHOW CONTACT PARAMETERS=YES
              NUMHITS=3,NUMROWS=1
              SPACER=0.9
              AVOIDANCE MOVE=NO
            SHOW HITS=NO
MAN_PLN2   =FEAT/CONTACT/PLANE/DEFAULT,CARTESIAN,TRIANGLE,LEAST_SQR
            THEO/<0.75,9.0764,0.027>,<1,0,0>
            ACTL/<0.75,9.0764,0.027>,<1,0,0>
            TARG/<0.75,9.0764,0.027>,<1,0,0>
            ANGLE VEC=<0,0,-1>,RADIAL
            SHOW FEATURE PARAMETERS=NO
            SHOW CONTACT PARAMETERS=YES
              NUMHITS=3,NUMRINGS=1
              SPACER=0.2
              AVOIDANCE MOVE=NO
            SHOW HITS=NO
MAN_A2     =ALIGNMENT/START,RECALL:MAN_A1,LIST=YES
              ALIGNMENT/TRANS,YAXIS,MAN_PLN1
              ALIGNMENT/ROTATE,XPLUS,TO,MAN_PLN2,ABOUT,YPLUS
            ALIGNMENT/END
            MODE/DCC​
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